Mary A. Whooley, MD
BA, Yale University
MD, Boston University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
4150 Clement Street (111A1)
San Francisco, CA 94121
Phone: 415-750-2093
Fax: 415-379-5573
E-mail: mary.whooley@ucsf.edu
Research interests
I am Principal Investigator of the Heart and Soul Study, a 10-year prospective cohort study of over 1000 patients with coronary heart disease. The Heart and Soul Study is a valuable source of secondary data for clinical research projects related to biobehavioral medicine and cardiovascular disease, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications produced since 2003. Please see study website for further information: http://www.heartandsoulstudy.net
Selected publications
Whooley MA, de Jonge P, Vittinghoff E, Otte C, Moos R, Carney RM, Ali S, Dowray S, Na B, Feldman MD, Schiller NB, Browner WS. Depressive symptoms, health behaviors, and risk of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease. JAMA 2008;300(20):2379-2388.
Whooley MA. Depression and cardiovascular disease: healing the broken hearted. JAMA 2006;295(24):2874-2881.
Ruo B, Rumsfeld JS, Hlatky MA, Liu H, Browner WS, Whooley MA. Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life: The Heart and Soul Study. JAMA 2003; 290:215-221.
Hlatky MA, Boothroyd D, Vittinghoff E, Sharp P, Whooley MA. Quality of Life and Depressive Symptoms in Post-Menopausal Women After Randomization to Hormone Therapy: The Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial. JAMA 2002;287:591-597.
Whooley MA, Simon GE. Managing depression in medical outpatients. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1942-1950.
